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Roman Literary Cultures - Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle

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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson Klappentext Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature. Zusammenfassung Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship! Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction – Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson   Part I – Domestic Politics 2. Varro on the Battle of Moisture in the Roman Domus (A Note on Men. Fr. 531–32) – Christer Bruun 3. Rape, the Family, and the “Father of the Fatherland” in Ovid, Fasti 2 – Fanny Dolansky 4. Naming the Elegiac Mistress: Elegiac Onomastics in Roman Inscriptions – Alison Keith 5. In Manus: Pliny’s Letters and the Arts of Mastery – Sarah Blake   Part II – Revolutionary Poetics 6. The Magic is in the Mix: Circe, Ovid, and the Genre(s) of the Remedia Amoris – Barbara Weiden Boyd 7. Primus Pastor: The Origins of Pastoral in Ovid’s Metamorphoses – Sarah McCallum 8. Narrative Transition and Literary Allusion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 9 – C.W. Marshall  9. Elegy and Epic in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile – Cedric Littlewood 10. Revolution and Revenge: Reading Aeneas through Hannibal – Elizabeth Kennedy   Part III – Civic Spectacle 11. The Charms of an Older Lover: Afranius 378–382 Ribbeck3 – Jarrett Welsh 12. Knowledge, Power, and Republicanism in Lucan – Jonathan Tracy 13. The Rites of Others – Clifford Ando 14. Rituals of Reciprocity: Gladiatorial Munera in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses – Jonathan Edmondson

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Authors Alison Edmondson Keith
Assisted by Jonathan Edmondson (Editor), Alison Keith (Editor)
Publisher University of Toronto Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.08.2016
 
EAN 9781442629677
ISBN 978-1-4426-2967-7
No. of pages 368
Series Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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